Waste″ful (?), a. 1. Full of waste; destructive to property; ruinous; as, wasteful practices or negligence; wasteful expenses.
2. Expending, or tending to expend, property, or that which is valuable, in a needless or useless manner; lavish; prodigal; as, a wasteful person; a wasteful disposition.
3. Waste; desolate; unoccupied; untilled.
In wilderness and wasteful desert strayed. Spenser.
Syn. — Lavish; profuse; prodigal; extravagant.
— Waste″ful‐ly, adv. — Waste″ful‐ness, n.